No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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